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Pair of Art Deco Gilt Iron WPA Style Foundry Men Bookends Signed NMF 1936
By WPA
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Art Deco Gilt Iron WPA Style Foundry Men Bookends Signed NMF 1936 USA, 1936 A rare and
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20th Century American Art Deco Bookends

Materials

Iron

Thomas Hart Benton styled Wpa Litho by Eric Bransby " Gold Train "
By WPA
Located in Cincinnati, OH
) titled " Gold Train " . Working in the style of the WPA studying in art school with fellow artist Thomas
Category

Mid-20th Century American Arts and Crafts Prints

Materials

Paper

WPA Style Cast Stone Garden Flag Bearer Statue of a Handsome Navy Sailor
By WPA
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
WPA Style Cast Stone Garden Flag Bearer Statue of a Handsome Navy Sailor Artistic influences of
Category

20th Century American Art Deco Statues

Materials

Cast Stone, Iron

Mid-20th Century Folk Art WPA Style Oil on Canvas Painting, Pelham Bay Park
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Charming folk depiction of Pelham Bay Park.
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Girl Eating an Apple, Modernist Style, Agnes Mills WPA Artist
Located in New York, NY
right: Mills As one of the youngest and considered by many to be one of the most gifted WPA. Artists
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Watercolor

20th Century Oil WPA Style Oil Painting Urban Landscape c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
20th Century Oil WPA Style Oil Painting Oil on board. Approximately 20" wide x 16" high. The
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Dust Bowl, monotype, black and white, wpa style
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
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2010s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Paper, Monotype

41st & 10th: Abstract WPA Style Cityscape, New York City Rooftops & Water Tower
By Ricardo Mulero
Located in Hudson, NY
(Fire Island Pines Arts Project) Biennial. Ricardo Mulero continues to benefit from art coaching at
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil, Gesso

Caution School Zone WPA Style Wood Sign Red White and Blue Hand Painted
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chunky red, white and blue hand painted school safety zone sign. Super graphic and bold. Nice thick construction.
Category

Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Signs

Materials

Wood

Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixed races, African
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1930s WPA-Style Walnut Desk Organizer
Located in Red Lion, PA
1930s WPA-Style Wooden Desk Organizer This 1930s WPA-style desk accessory is a superb example of
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Desk Sets

Materials

Walnut

"Seated Black Man, " Rare and Fine WPA-Style Painting attributed to Walker Evans
By Walker Evans
Located in Philadelphia, PA
example of WPA-style portraiture, and in the tradition of Evans' documentary photographs, it depicts a
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

Bernard Zakheim, WPA Style Sculpture of Moses With Horns
By Bernard Baruch Zakheim
Located in Treasure Island, CA
studied at the Applied Art School in Warsaw, Academy of Poland, Politechnicum in Danzig, and
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Vintage 1950s American Folk Art Sculptures

Framed Ashcan School Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Austin, TX
This wonderful oil painting has a WPA style, 1940s Ashcan art. Signed lower right; D.J. '47. The
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Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Art Deco WPA Pottery Horse Sculpture by Jordan 1937
By WPA
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A very well done handcrafted pottery fired clay horse in the Art Deco WPA style with strong build
Category

Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Animal Sculptures

Materials

Clay

East River Panorama I (WPA Style Horizontal Cityscape Painting of Brooklyn, NY)
By Robert Goldstrom
Located in Hudson, NY
the East River in New York City. Painted in a style that evokes the era of the WPA in American history
Category

2010s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Huge Aschan School WPA Style Social Realism Interior Scene Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned.
Category

1960s Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

WPA Style Scene of Working Men Seated with Newspapers by John Deforest Stull
Located in New York, NY
American artist John Deforest Stull in 1939. The composition depicts a WPA style scene of two men
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Oil Painting Social Realist Kids and Cat in Red Wagon WPA Style
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixed races, African
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Unique, Art Deco Sculpture of Worker with Dove, WPA Style
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Powerfully and gracefully expressed, this large, very fine sculpture -- probably by an important figure such as Albert Wein or Geza de Vegh -- depicts a farm worker with one hand hol...
Category

Vintage 1930s American Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

WPA Style Terracotta Sculpture of Working Men with Sledgehammers
Located in Rochester, NY
An industrial WPA style hand built terracotta earthenware sculpture of two large standing muscular
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Earthenware, Terracotta

1930's Wpa style cast stone bust of a man
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A 1930's era cast stone bust of a man in the stylized maner of thw WPA era. It has cast lines but
Category

Vintage 1930s American Folk Art Sculptures

Materials

Stone

W.P.A. Style Painting, Science, Politics Industry 1940s-1950s, Oil on Board
By WPA
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing W.P.A. style painting, trip-tic depicting science, politics industry, worker's, 1940s-1950s
Category

Vintage 1940s American Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paint

American WPA Era Woodcut Portrait
By Minnie Lois Murphy
Located in Houston, TX
Eye-catching female portrait woodcut by WPA-era American artist Minnie Lois Murphy (1901-1962
Category

1920s Other Art Style Portrait Prints

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

WPA Dockers Etching, C. 1930
By Louis Szanto
Located in Houston, TX
Dynamic etching of dock workers in Holland by Hungarian-born WPA artist Louis Szanto (1889-1965
Category

1930s Other Art Style Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Etching

WPA Style Social Realism -- Working on a Tunnel 1920s
Located in Soquel, CA
WPA Style Social Realism -- Working on a Tunnel 1920s Wonderful WPA-style social realism painting
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Man Sawing Wood (WPA style Painted Lumberyard Scene in Vintage Frame)
By Arthur Hammer
Located in Hudson, NY
personal interest in the painting styles that emerged during the Federally funded Art Project that employed
Category

2010s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

NYC Street Scene Vintage 1950s Lithograph WPA Style
By Benjamin Eisenstat
Located in Surfside, FL
; Fleisher Art Mem; PAFA; Albert Barnes Foundation. Exhibited: PAFA, 1935-38; PAFA ann., 1968; Albany Inst
Category

1950s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Asian Workers in the Market WPA Style Social Realist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed with a K. It is not dated but we estimate it to the 1950's. It appears to be Asian but it might be Latin American or Mexican. Market scene.
Category

1950s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Surreal Old Master Style WPA Era Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist painting by Joep Nicolas (1897 - 1972). Oil on board, circa 1949. Signed. Displayed in a period frame.
Category

1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Set of Three WPA Style Circus Drawings by Austin Hogan
By Austin S. Hogan
Located in Rochester, NY
The artist has created works that truly capture the the beauty and the grit of the carnival world. Done in graphite on brown paper. In the original period frames. Austin S. Hogan is...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Decorative Art

Artist Working At His Easel in WPA Style Michael Tanzer New York 1961-67
By Michael Tanzer
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful WPA style figurative of an artist (potentially a self-portrait) at easel by Michael
Category

1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

WPA Art Deco Ceramic Mother and Child
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A ceramic mother and child figurine done in the WPA Art Deco style. Features a felt base. Not
Category

20th Century American Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

WPA Art Deco Ceramic Mother and Child
WPA Art Deco Ceramic Mother and Child
H 11.25 in W 5.25 in D 3.25 in
1930s WPA Style Art Deco Boxing Oil Painting
Located in North Hollywood, CA
corner, undetected from the front side. The painting came from a collection of wonderful WPA works and
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

1930s WPA Style Art Deco Boxing Oil Painting
1930s WPA Style Art Deco Boxing Oil Painting
H 21.25 in W 25.25 in D 1.25 in
WPA Style Art Deco Transportation Worker Bronze Plaque
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Originally in a New York transportation building of the 1930s, this handsome plaque makes a striking and strong statement. The solid bronze figure depicts a railroad worker holding a...
Category

Vintage 1930s American Wall-mounted Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

WPA-Style Expressionist Sailor by Byron Randall, 1943
By Byron Randall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1943 gouache on paper painting is by noted Expressionist West Coast artist Byron Randall (1918–1999). His work is held in the permanent collections of the Phillips Collection, t...
Category

1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Early 20th Century American WPA Style Oil Painting of Women in Art Studio Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique, early 20th century, WPA style painting of women and women artists in an art studio. The
Category

Early 20th Century American Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

Fantastic Carved Wall Plaque Painting by A.M. Robe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This very WPA style piece of art has a very tropical feel. It is signed and dated 1944 on the verso
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20th Century American Decorative Art

Fabulous 1940's Folk Art Painting
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Fabulous WPA style folk art oil on board of a rail yard. Details of the junk pile are worked in pen
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Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Fabulous 1940's Folk Art Painting
Fabulous 1940's Folk Art Painting
H 16 in W 19 in D 0.75 in
GEORGE COLIN PASTEL FOLK ART PAINTING
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful WPA style folk art painting by well- known George Colin of Illinois .Colin's work is in
Category

20th Century American Paintings

WPA Style Sculpture of a Woman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Plaster bust of a woman stylized in the WPA manner.
Category

20th Century American Art Deco Busts

Materials

Plaster

WPA Style Sculpture of a Woman
WPA Style Sculpture of a Woman
H 19 in W 6 in D 9 in
WPA Style Watercolor Painting by Dorothy Sklar, 1946
By Dorothy Sklar
Located in North Hollywood, CA
This great image is typical of the street scenes of the 1930s WPA artworks. There is an overall
Category

Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paper

WPA Style 1930s Oil Painting of Road Workers by Mitchell
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A great depression era original oil painting by Mitchell. In Classic WPA style, it depicts the
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

WPA Style 1930s Oil Painting of Striking Workers by a. Martinelli
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A very strong and passionate image by American artist A. Martinelli. The subject matter is a group of striking workers involved in a scuffle. A great use of bold colors, the work is ...
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

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